#laravel

Laravel's first-party AI SDK (laravel/ai) — a unified PHP API for agents with tools and structured output, images, audio, transcription, embeddings, reranking, classification, vector stores, and human tool approval.

Interview outline and technical questions for a Senior Software Engineer (PHP, JavaScript, Laravel 8+) role, plus tips on what interviewers expect.

Short Q&A reference covering common Laravel interview topics such as CSRF, facades, service container, validation, Eloquent, and caching.

Laravel 13.36 (framework PR 61833, released 2026-10-13) adds a Rule:: builder for every validation rule that was still string-only (Rule::requiredWithout, Rule::url()->protocols, Rule::uuid()->version, Rule::distinct()->ignoreCase, and others), plus Rule::date()->equals. Builders give IDE autocompletion and pass parameters as arrays, so values containing commas, quotes or pipes no longer break; string rules still work and can be mixed in.